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Recti Totalis

Instrvmenta · Venatoria · MMXXVI
"The hunt ends clean."
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The CredoCredo
A clean carcass is not a technicality. It is the moral completion of the hunt.

Recti Totalis is a house of precision instruments for the completion of the hunt. Where others stop at the shot, we finish the work — from the smallest quarry to the largest beast. A complete taxonomy of extractors and obturators: each tool named for its animal, each animal honoured by its tool.

We inherit the lineage of the hunter-physician-priest: those who work skilfully with the body after its stillness, without sentiment and without euphemism. The meat is sacred. Cleanliness is respect. The instrument must be worthy of the quarry.

We are building an instrument-maker's house, not a sporting-goods brand. Forged stainless. Oiled walnut. Polished bone. A single cork-pop. Silence after.

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The InstrumentExtractor Recti III
RT III V

The third generation of a two-millennium craft.

The Extractor Recti III isolates and extracts the anal alimentary canal in a single controlled motion — insertion, a half-turn, withdrawal. Clean. Uncontaminated. Complete.

Unlike the generic plastic tools that preceded it, every unit is sized to its animal. The principle is anatomical correctness, not convenience.

Material
Cold-forged stainless & oiled walnut
Collar
Hand-finished brass
Marking
Engraved RT · III · Species
Case
Waxed canvas, leather-bound
Provenance
Designed & finished in Europe
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The TaxonomyOrdo Rerum · The Seven
A Linnaean grid, not a catalogue. Each tool is named after its animal. Each animal is honoured by its own instrument. Seven sizes. One principle.
Species
Vulgaris
Length
Mass
I
Sciurus
Squirrel
60 mm
≤ 1 kg
II
Lepus
Hare · Rabbit
85 mm
1 – 5 kg
III
Vulpes
Fox
110 mm
5 – 10 kg
IV
Capreolus
Roe deer
140 mm
10 – 30 kg
V
Sus
Boar
180 mm
30 – 120 kg
VI
Cervus
Red deer · Elk
220 mm
120 – 350 kg
VII
Equus
Horse
280 mm
350 kg +
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The ObturatorThe Seal · Three Grades
For the second act of cleanliness — the sealing of the carcass during transport and hanging. Cork, beeswax, waxed linen. Simple materials, precise tolerances.
Obturator Minor
Small quarry — up to 5 kg. For hare, rabbit, squirrel, and upland birds.
Cork · Beeswax
Obturator Medius
Mid-range — 5 to 40 kg. For fox, roe deer, small boar.
Beech · Waxed linen
Obturator Maior
Large game — 40 kg and above. For red deer, elk, mature boar, and equine.
Walnut · Waxed hemp
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The CaseWhy this, why now
i

One size does not fit the quarry.

Every existing field-dressing tool is built for whitetail deer. Small-game hunters improvise with knives. Large-game butchers scale up veterinary hardware. The instrument must match the animal.

ii

Contamination is the commonest ruin.

More wild meat is wasted to faulty dressing than to any other cause. A correctly extracted canal is the single highest-leverage moment in the field. The work deserves the right tool.

iii

The craft deserves gravity.

Hunters are served a sporting-goods aesthetic — plastic, neon, acronyms. The craft is older and graver than that. Recti Totalis restores the register it deserves.

iv

An instrument, not a gadget.

Each unit is made to patina, to be resharpened, to outlast its first owner. Heirloom manufacture. European finishing. No disposable plastic.

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The FoundersOrdo Fundatorum · CXX Only

We are minting the first production run in autumn MMXXVI. One hundred and twenty units across the seven species — no more. The founding register funds the first cutting dies, the first walnut billet, the first run of brass collars.

Three tiers. Three offices. Choose yours.

Tier I
Scriba
€40one-time
  • Monthly dispatches from the workshop
  • Name inscribed in the founding register
  • Early-access window to the first production run
  • Letterpressed certificate of enrolment
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Tier III
Haruspex
€880patron
  • Everything in Venator
  • Complete Cabinet V · Sus edition
  • Extractor · three obturators · honing steel
  • Personally engraved brass signet ring
  • Name on the colophon of every future catalogue
  • Invitation to the MMXXVII opening-day hunt
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